The 



inois Agricultural Association 



RECORD 



Volume 13 December, 1935 Number 12 



The President at 

 Chicago 



WHEN the Piesidoiit oimos to 

 CliK-<is<> Docfmbi'f 9 to address 

 tile annual mi'diny of llic Anu'i- 

 ican I-'aiMn Biin'au Kcdi ralKHi. he may 

 wi'll fill proud of ihi' rcsidls of the 

 n covcr\' program which he, the con- 

 gri'ss, and tlii' co-opiralion of some 

 3. 00(1. 0(10 American farmers made pos- 

 sible. 



He wJl find m Chicauo the aizn- 

 cultural capital of the country ni<in\ 

 sign.s of returning prosperity. He will 

 find no grass growing in the streets 

 for those streets are filled with shop- 

 pers with money in their pockets. 

 Streets that were quiet three years ago 

 arc jammed with trucks hauling goods 

 for farm destinations. The steel mills 

 of South Chicagi) and Gary are smok- 

 ing again because farmers are buying 



automobiles and farm machinery. Thi' 

 mad order houses ;nd department 

 stores are beehives because f.'iriijers 

 are getting a better br; ak in exchanu- 

 mg their products for manufaeuirrd 

 articles. 



The Presidi'iit wiJl be greeted bv 

 20.0(10 farmers grati'fu! for ihe fact 

 lliat he look their program and sai'i 

 OK." That program has proved s<njnd 

 It has accomplished largel.v what farm- 

 ers said it would accomplish. There is 

 new hope and optimism (m the farm 

 loday because of it. Farmers at last 

 feel that they. too. have a part in the 

 American protective system. 



It Ls clear to all informed people, and 

 admitted by all but the politically- 

 minded, that the unfair exchange value 

 existing between farm and non-agri- 



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riduiral goods three ye^irs ago was at 

 'he bottom of the dejiression. The crop 

 adjustment program, together wiih 

 iiioiK'iary reflation were aimed at that 

 problem. They have gone a long way 

 toward correcting it. Food prices are 

 somewhat higher but so are factory 

 payrifUs. The 19.34 drouth coupled with 

 three years of ruinous hog prices re- 

 duced the meat supply. But that has 

 Its good points. At least it brought a 

 new appreciation of pork chops, bacon. 



Intprndtional Livestocli E«Dos<*.on Amphitheatre in Chicago where P-v,c-'n,.t ,^t| cpe^k at opening session of American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion Meeting, 10 A. M. Monday. Dec. 9. 



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